If you disagree …

Please Note Well: It is not my intent to
belittle, unduly criticize, or “bash” anyone who may hold religious
or political persuasions or opinions that differ from my own. Even
though I may absolutely and totally disagree with your opinion, I
will defend to the death your God-given right to hold it.
If I am right and you are wrong, you have the God-given right to
continue to be wrong. If I am the one who is wrong, how can that
possibly affect you in any way? Since this website was originally
launched in 1995, I have continually held the position that
I am not anti-anybody; I am only pro-Truth.
[Please read
this important page for my definition of
“Truth.”]

The information presented on this
website is my own personal opinion, and mine alone. It is not
intended to represent the opinion of all of Messianic Judaism or of
any group or person other than myself. This is all about what I
believe, and nobody else. Many of
my opinions and conclusions are highly speculative in nature and are
open to many different interpretations. It is your God-given
right to disagree with my opinions and interpretations of Scripture.
But please do not waste your time and mine by emailing me to
tell me how wrong I am, or to complain about the content of
this web site, or to try to change my mind, or to try to engage me
in theological debate (I simply don’t have either the time or the
inclination to debate theology or doctrine with you), or (as many
people do) simply to “tell me off.” I simply don’t care any
more! Your theology is between you and God.

It is not my responsibility to try to convince
you of anything. God has directed me to always be ready to present
and defend what I believe (1 Peter
3:15-16). What you choose to do with it is between you and God.

In the first place, my opinions and
interpretations are based on more than 50 years of intense personal
study of the Scriptures, including over seven years of seminary
training culminating in a masters degree in systematic theology
(Th.M.) and two doctoral degrees — one in theology (Th.D.) and and
one in ministry
(D.Min.). My theological opinions are very difficult for
anyone to change or
influence. In about 1998 Ruach HaKodesh began to radically convict
me that what I had believed and had been teaching since the early
1960’s was simply foundationally wrong, and sent me down a new path
of understanding — one based on what the Bible actually says, and
not what I wanted it to say or what I was taught by others to accept
that it says.

You are simply not going to succeed in
convincing me that what Ruach HaKodesh has been showing me since
1998 is wrong; hundreds —
perhaps even thousands — of others of have failed to do so. Do I think I
“know it all?” Of course not; far from it. Ruach HaKodesh teaches me
something new every single time I open the pages of Scripture! If He
didn’t, I probably wouldn’t bother to study the Scriptures at all.
What would be the point?

I believe that the Bible — which includes
the Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible, and the Apostolic Writings — can be
proven beyond any possible doubt to be the literal word of God
as transcribed by men specially equipped by Ruach HaKodesh to
accurately record exactly — to the very letter and even the smallest
part of the letter — the message that God desired to
transmit to those who love Him. I believe that since God
desired to reveal Himself to men, He did so in a language and in a
format that men could easily understand if they would simply read
what He said and interpret the message using the standard rules of
language and grammar that apply to the language in which they were
originally written, and in the historical milieu in which they were
originally received.

To restate the point in the simplest
terms possible, I believe that the Scriptures can only be
accurately understood in exactly the same way that they would have
been understood by those to whom they were originally written, who
originally received them, and for whom they were originally
intended.

In the second place, I simply don’t
have the time to read the daily deluge of dissent, discontent, and
deceit. [Yeah, I thought that was a particularly cleverly-turned
alliterative phrase, too!] For more than ten years I received well over a hundred email
messages every single day, most of which were from people who
only want to argue or tell me off! “Truth” [as
defined here] offends a lot of people, including some
members of my own family! I have therefore been forced by these
circumstance to install an email filter program which simply deletes
most of the email that I receive, and I scan the survivors as my
very limited time permits. If you send me hate mail, the
chances are probably far less than 1% that I will ever receive it.

In the third
place, I am simply far too busy to read hate-filled email from
ignorant (and mostly inarticulate) people who, quite frankly, have
no factual basis from which to form any kind of opinion
(like
this one from August 2001, for example). [Of
course, I'm not talking about you! But you almost certainly know
the kind of people I mean. You probably have several of them in your
congregation.] Most of the people who write the really
offensive messages — like the Arabs and American politicians who
insist that the Jews have no right to the land that God
gave them 4,000 years ago, and the anti-Semitic religious bigots who
insist that God is a liar Who has revoked His
irrevocable covenants with Israel and transferred them to “the
church” — only want to argue their emotions in total
disregard of both historical fact and revealed Biblical Truth!

Since I have never accepted a salary for any part
of over 50 years of ministry (starting in 1962), that means that I
must earn a living the old-fashioned way — I work for it! Now that I
have retired from working for, and drawing a paycheck from, others I
spend an average of 30 to 40 hours a week studying the Scriptures
and writing new articles (and revising older articles) for this
website. I am also heavily involved in several community service
organizations. Therefore, I spend less than about an hour
a week reading the little bit of email that actually manages to get
through to me, and I seldom actually read a message until several
weeks after it was sent. Your chances of reaching me with hate mail
just aren’t very good at all.

If you believe that your opinions are
worth voicing and you would like for other people to be able to hear
your message, then I most respectfully suggest that you do what I
have done. Rent yourself a little corner of the World Wide Web,
spend a few hundred hours building your own website, then spend 20
or 30 hours a week keeping it current.

Oh, I almost forgot! If your website
actually says something worthwhile, be sure to install an email
filter to capture and discard the hundreds of pieces of hate mail
that you can expect to receive every day.

And
in case you were wondering … nobody else pays for
any part of my rather significant website expenses. I pay them
directly out of my own pocket, with the help of a few people who
believe that what I have to say is worthwhile. You can click this
button if you would like to help.

While I am on the subject,
this may be a good place to respond to the charge that I hate or
“bash” some religious, ethnic, and/or political groups, particularly
Arab Muslims and Catholics. [See the introductory note at the top of
this page.] Nothing could be farther from the truth. [I am actually
an equal-opportunity bigot. I hate everybody equally!! — Oh, fer
cryin’ out loud! That’s a joke! Lighten up!! But you just
watch and see; somebody is going to quote that statement out
of context!] I’m not really anti-anybody, but I am pro-Truth.
Therefore, when I take a firm stand in favor of Truth, the only
logical result is that I must stand against those who have
taken a stand against Truth.

So now you must ask me for my
definition of “Truth” [John
18:38]. Simply stated, “Truth is that which is, as
contrasted and opposed to that which is not.” That
which actually exists is Truth; all else is then of necessity
false. There is, therefore, only one single objective truth in all
of our space-time continuum and beyond. [READ
MORE] There is only one Creator-God Who is the Author of
all that is, and He is therefore the Author of Truth. He desires to
reveal Himself to His creation, and He has done so through the
Jewish Prophets, Whom He specially and supernaturally equipped to
receive and record the Truth that He has chosen to reveal.

Does the Bible contain all the
Truth that exists? Certainly not. The Bible does not contain all
Truth, but all that the Bible does contain is Truth.
The Bible (and not the way the Bible is interpreted by men) is therefore the standard by which all other knowledge
is to be measured. Truth is also to be found in God’s
creation, in the laws of physics, chemistry, and mathematics that He
ordained as controls in our multiverse, as well as in the accurate
record of history. But when the knowledge that we receive from
creation is in disagreement with the Truth contained in the Bible,
our understanding of that knowledge must be adjusted to fit
the revealed Truth of the Bible. Those who fail to make that
adjustment exchange the Truth of God for the lies of
HaSatan.

For the wrath of God is revealed
from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who
suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is
known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them.
For since the creation of the world His
invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been
clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that
they are without excuse. For even though they knew God,
they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they
became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was
darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and
exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an
image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed
animals and crawling creatures.

Therefore God gave them over in the
lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be
dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God
for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the
Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

… And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge
God any longer, God gave them over to a
depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being
filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed,
evil; full of envy, murder, strife,
deceit, malice; they are gossips, slanderers,
haters of God, insolent, arrogant,
boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to
parents, without understanding, untrustworthy,
unloving, unmerciful; and although they know the
ordinance of God, that those who practice such things
are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty
approval to those who practice them.
[Romans 1:18-32, NAS]

I neither “hate” nor “bash” people who
have taken a stand against God’s revealed Truth. I
simply recognize and acknowledge them for what God
says they are.

Revised Sunday, 29 November 2015 09:15 AM

Page last updated on
Wednesday, 03 August 2016 11:17 AM
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